Arknights, but all characters are NPCs?

W smacked his lips, sat up, and reached out to touch the pattern: "Is there any way to erase this thing?"

Although W doesn't know the specific name of this pattern, she has experienced its function once personally.

Anyway, it’s not a serious thing.

But unfortunately, Kal'tsit shook her head and said, "Give up. I've tried, but it can't be eliminated."

"You tried? What did you try?"

W subconsciously looked up at Kal'tsit.

Then, as if he thought of something, W lowered his head again and looked at the black stockings on Kal'tsit's legs.

"Just as you thought." Noticing W's gaze, Kal'tsit did not hide it: "He also wrote on my leg."

"Ahaha! It turns out I'm not the only one who's unlucky. I feel relieved."

This sounded like a tone of gloating, which made Kal'tsit glance at W.

But Kal'tsit was not annoyed. She just took out a small notebook and wrote and drew on it to make notes. She asked, "The words on my legs are just words. They have no other functions. As for the one on your lower abdomen... do you feel anything?"

"Feeling?" W thought for a moment: "Glowing?"

"anything else?"

"Hmm...it seems to be heating up too?"

Oh shit, it's over.

After being chased in the dream world for so long, W has developed some conditioned reflexes.

The moment he noticed that the pattern was heating up, W immediately jumped up from the bed and turned his head to look around, as if he was afraid that Lu Shang would appear from somewhere again.

"Don't worry, I checked, there is no such person as Lu Shang in the real world."

When Kal'tsit saw W's reaction, she knew what she was worried about, so she said bluntly: "You don't have to worry that Lu Shang will chase you into the real world... Well, you never know."

"No, can you give me a definite answer?"

W didn't want to escape from the dream world with great difficulty, but when she opened her eyes, she found Lu Shang sitting beside her bed and said, "Surprise! Didn't expect it, it was me."

That would be really scary.

"I'm sorry, but I can't give you an accurate answer right now, because even I know almost nothing about the dream world at the moment."

"But according to my previous experience...W, the obscene...little bat pattern on your lower abdomen can be brought back to the real world. It is probably because Lu Shang added settings such as "indestructible" and "indelible". "

"So if you want to eliminate it, there is probably only one way."

"What method?" W asked.

"Go back to the dream world, find Lu Shang, and ask him for help." Kal'tsit returned.

W: "..."

You might as well kill me now.

I just taunted you, and now you want me to go back?

This is not the way to commit suicide, right?

026. So, thanks to W’s efforts, the reputation of Sarkaz seems to have become even worse.

If someone had told W three days ago that he would be saved by a cat and then taken to a landship called Rhodes Island to cheer for his idol... No, it was a part-time job.

Then on the first day of work, you were not asked to fight or assassinate, but to hold a baby reading machine and read and recognize words, and you had to read by lamplight at night -

Even if you beat W to death, she won't believe such nonsense.

But unfortunately, three days later, W believed it.

Because that obscene...little bat pattern can glow.

And the thief is very smart.

Normally it’s okay, as you have clothes to cover it. At worst you can just wear something thicker.

But the problem is, even if W doesn't want to go back to that dream world, she can stay awake, but she can't not take a shower, right?

One of the people on this island is her idol, the other is her savior, and Ines' little lamb also lives in the ward next to her.

W didn't want to leave a "stinky" impression in those three people's minds.

But to take a shower, you have to take off your clothes, right?

Once the clothes are taken off, the little bat pattern on the lower abdomen can no longer be covered.

How to do it?

Pull your panties up higher?

That's what W did.

Then, as soon as he entered the women's bathhouse, W heard an operator exclaim:

"Wow, glow-in-the-dark pants!"

What happened after that...I don't know.

Anyway, since that day, rumors have been circulating on Rhodes Island: "The Sarkaz have a very strange aesthetic sense and are obsessed with luminous shorts. Previously, a Miss M wore one to the women's bathhouse to show off, but someone called her childish. Miss M got so angry that she pushed the other person to the ground and beat him up, and even forced the other person to change her shorts to luminous ones."

The reason why it is a rumor and not a hearsay is because W really beat someone up.

But W was not hitting the operator who made the "luminous pants" exclamation, but Korciel.

Because the brighter the light of the little bat pattern, the louder the sound of the reading machine.

Having already suffered a loss once in the dream world, how could W not learn his lesson?

So he immediately picked up the booklet with various precautions written by Kal'tsit, and then took out the reading machine developed jointly by Kal'tsit and Kal'tsit.

Then when W uses the reading machine for the first time, press the start button and just listen:

"Welcome to the Krusier brand reading machine! One of the top 100 young men in Kazdel, the painstaking work of Rhodes Island's ship reliability engineer! You are trustworthy!"

"Click where you don't understand, an educational brand created specifically for infants and young children!"

"Reading and recognizing characters are more suitable for the physique of baby Kazdel!"

Anyway, W no longer wanted to recall the past. The reading machine made a roar, attracting the attention of everyone around.

Then, after the reading machine finished speaking, the people around looked at W with strange eyes.

Afterwards, W ran to ask Kal'tsit: "Didn't you and Kal'sit develop this reading machine together? This thing is so loud, didn't you remind me?"

But Kal'tsit just said expressionlessly: "That's why I didn't let Kal'tsit name the reading machine after me. Didn't you hear it? That's a Kal'tsit brand reading machine. What does it have to do with me, Kal'tsit?"

So after W, he rushed to Korsil and beat her up.

Oh, now think about it...

The rumor about the "luminous underpants" might have been spread by Klushier.

And then...the time has come to now.

"Have you heard about that? That rumor?"

"Rumors? Luminous pants? Shouldn't that be a rumor? Hedley, when did you start to like gossiping about these things?"

"Uh... I'm not gossiping, it's just... I've been asked so many times that I can't help but remember it."

"You've been asked a lot? Who asked? Where did they ask?"

"Men's bathhouse?"

"..."

"..."

"You men...do you like to talk about this kind of stuff while taking a shower?"

"But Inès...the rumor about the luminous pants first came from your women's bathhouse."

"... ..., I've already said that it's a rumor, not a hearsay. Anyway, I've never seen any luminous pants... Forget it, the reputation of the Sarkaz is already like this, and there are still such rumors. I don't know if His Highness has been affected..."

"But Ines, aren't you Caprini? And as for your Highness...When I passed by the logistics department before, I seemed to hear Kal'tsit discussing with your Highness whether to purchase a batch of luminous underwear from the logistics department while this rumor was spreading. Your Highness was hesitant at the time, but unfortunately, it was vetoed by Dr. Kal'tsit in the end."

"What a pity...? Hedley, what are you regretting?"

"Ahem... No, I mean, why haven't I seen anyone from W recently?"

This was not because Hedley was forcibly changing the subject, but he had already discussed it with Inès and decided to leave the Tower of Babel.

After all, W is in the same team with them. If both of them decide to leave, they should at least ask W's opinion.

"W... I remember she seemed to be learning to read. When she was in the ward before, she even brought a very loud reading machine."

"Reading and writing? W her? Isn't that good?"

"Very good? I thought you would say, Hedley, just W her? It's just a three-minute enthusiasm or something."

"No, Inès, you don't know, the Sarkaz education is really...sigh..."

"Okay, okay, stop sighing, we're here."

Inès and Hedley had arrived at the door of a dormitory.

I heard that ever since the last incident with the reading machine, W had asked Kal'tsit to approve a room for him to hide in to read and learn to read.

Now Inès knocked on the door and waited a moment, but found no response.

So she tried turning the doorknob and found that the door was not locked. Ines opened the door a little and looked inside.

After seeing W sitting at the table and reading by lamplight, Inès asked Hedley to wait at the door while she went in to talk to W.

Hedley had no objection to this. After all, although this room was approved temporarily, after W moved in, he had already used it as his own bedroom.

It would not be a good idea if word got out that a grown man like him entered a young girl's bedroom.

Then when Inès entered the room and walked towards W, just when she was about to say hello -

"Y pattern"

W took a pen and pointed at a passage in a booklet.

“It is usually a heart pattern, but it can also appear in other shapes depending on the user’s preference.”

"Legend has it that it is used by succubi and is engraved on the lower abdomen."

"The specific characteristics are heat, light, and--"

Inès: "..."

Inès didn't know what the reading machine said afterwards.

Because she left the room as quickly as possible and slammed the door shut.

This made Hedley, who had been waiting at the door for a long time, stunned and asked, "What's wrong?"

"I...now feel that the reputation of the Sarkaz is getting worse and worse, and it seems to be not without reason..."

Inès fell into deep thought.

027. Kal'tsit is in a bad state. She has started to actively try to enter the dream world.

"What? Inès, you're leaving?"

W was very excited when he heard the news.

Okay, it’s better to go.

W was worried that Inès would also be dragged into the dream world.

Although there is no evidence yet to show whether the scope of the dream world's recruitment is limited to Rhodes Island...

But it is a fact that both Kal'tsit and W traveled through time from Rhodes Island.

So it’s better to leave.

But Ines didn't know the inside story, and she was just confused by W's cheerful look.